cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54821262
Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).
Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.
Internet piracy is one of the greatest things that has happened to me. I think it is a skill everyone should know how to do.
i mean, paying for anime is pretty stupid, but i’m kinda surprised that weebs mostly are in palestine’s side, maybe being too focused in scum like rev or le reddit, i was thinking that weebs were “based” rightoids, zionist and transphobic
It reminds me about how Zionists at a local college strongarmed the school to serve “Israeli salad” with a giant flag on it at every mealhall and students just don’t eat it and the school just has to throw it in the garbage all the time.
I dumped them years ago and just pirate anything I want to a home server. Even then, I find myself watching less and less anime. Every year that goes by, the number of actually good plot line animes dwindles further and is replaced with shit that should be considered Hentai. I will never understand the obsession with making anime closer and closer to just being straight up porn.
i mean, there’s a little nuance to find: current ecchi anime (most of them being absolute wish fulfillment garbage and “waifu” slop) are pretty tame compared with 80’s anime in showing naked girls, but it’s always about navigating the sea of crappy isekais, ecchi slop to find good stuff with decent plot (and i mean narrative plot, not “that other plot”)
Fuck Crunchyroll. Good thing my subscription ended this week and it didn’t auto renew. I just installed Hayase on PC to watch anime. The only thing I’m gonna miss is watching it on the TV.
There’s plenty of sticks, like anything that supports Google TV, where you can use piracy software.
Comrades, I’d like to propose we send all AI bros to Gulags 🙏
AI (LLMs more accurately) is just technology. It’s like saying let’s send all steam machine proponents to gulag. The problem is who controls this means of production. China does very interesting things with AI, it’s only in the west that the assistant/therapist/friend model is growing and being pushed on people and that they want power that doesn’t even exist yet to sustain it - of course they do, they’re tech companies. They want to control electricity because their tech doesn’t work without it. Altman even said he was working on something beyond electricity - he’s delusional, but he still believes it.
But China conversely is investing heavily in renewables and solar power, to the point that in China power is not even considered a problem anymore. Their grid always has 2-3x more power than they use and pretty much all they build nowadays is renewables.
Whether we like it or not AI is clearly here to stay. Maybe it will all fizzle out in some years, who knows - floppy disks also rose and fell to give way to the CD. But we see even socialist countries getting into AI (Cuba is announcing their chatbot, and China is soon to be leading and has already caused two huge scares in the US tech scene), because the technology is very important to get into. The US plans to use it, and is using it, in war, for example. If China said “no we don’t like AI” they would just get picked off by this tech. They have no choice but to understand and embrace it in order to level the playing field.
Frankly Europe is the one that needs to step its game up but we’re 20 years too late for that. We gutted our tech in favor of American software and now we have nothing except startups whose sole purpose is to get bought out by Google and then retire on the money.
Technology is neither noble nor wicked, yes. That said, I was referring specifically to “AI bros”, not all the people researching and making use of AI at large.
